Immigrant of the Day: Ronan Noone (Ireland)

Ronan Noone, playwright, was born April 7, 1970, in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. Noone, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, was recently profiled in the N.Y. Times. At 38 he has moved to American subjects after the series of Irish ensemble plays that kicked off his career in Boston. He is taking on New York with a star, Campbell Scott, in his one-man play “The Atheist,” which opens Sunday at the Barrow Street Theater.

KJ